Philip Mountford

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Bluesky getting a tad ahead of itself on Ash Wednesday..

Currently in the Courtauld exhibition (along with a host of other Seurat seascapes)

😱 surely it’s ‘Brava’. Giving librarians a bad name 🤣

For me it was marrying *before* I became that 72 hours-a-week academic - and I married somebody whose father was a 72 hours-a-week publisher. Mrs M thought this was all quite normal! "Of course you take your laptop to the Center Parcs pool while I watch the kids", &c...

Lovely to read. I know what you mean. Let's all keep going in our bubble!

❤️🥂

First time we’ve had outside Christmas lights. I’ll be joining the 21st century if I’m not careful!

Same here!

Is that Winchester - the old pilgrim entry to St Swithun‘s shrine?

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Yes, we wrote a listicle. Sorry/not sorry. Someone had to write this and it turns out it was us. 🙄

I loved it!

Ah - but form follows function (alas)

Rushdie?

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Yes!

She’d have died thirty years ago without the champagne! 🥂

Joint migration statement: 02 October 2025 A joint statement from European Leaders on managing the challenges of illegal migration following the European Political Community Summit in Copenhagen, Denmark

I confess I'm surprised that this outcome of the recent EPC summit didn't get more coverage. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Can’t do that with a digital subscription!

@gabyhinsliff.bsky.social , did you walk the Striding Edge route up to Helvellyn in the end? I went up there the other week but from the easier Thirlmere side. Just curious, given the various replies to your original post (which I couldn’t find again) on this topic.

Oh that’s brilliant!

They’re glorious!

😮

What a joyful image (in every way)!

Fancy!

Just a 1100m climb up to this mountain guest house (‘hut’). Greats views. Sausage and noodle soup most welcome!

Waterfall, Alpine style. Attentive readers will note the path goes right through it!

Pottering about in Austria up near the Italy border